I am very sympathetic to people with mental illness, it is not only highly stigmatised, but also one of the hardest things to overcome. People suffer from it every single day in many situations.
However, this magical "Social Anxiety" in most people has never been diagnosed, has never been verified or treated beyond a small amount of people that genuinely have intense feelings of paranoia, and an inability to cope in actual real situations because of it.
Many people specifically misjudge or self-diagnose themselves because they want to feel special, or unique, or get attention from others. Same twats will say "Oh, I have depression!" when they are just feeling a bit down because it is a miserable day, or because it is the magical *thing* to have this time around.
This isn't a "Hey, let's laugh at the mentally ill every body!" mentaiity, but instead a "Let's actually treat the people who have it, and diagnose it correctly", and not let stupid teens who have read a couple of things on the 'net, and somehow assume they have something because they hit 1-2 of the criteria, and want to be unique and special.
Very big difference, but as usual, hey, if you mention it, you're unempathic or unrecognising of peoples *struggles*, when in reality people need to realise their might not actually be anything wrong with them beyond normal social behaviourial issues that literally *everybody* has.
The difference is as palpable as that between apples and oranges, and is completely off-topic anyways. Besides, low post count lurker? Why would I even worry